The way of all flesh

Cuisine au micro-ondes

For many years a link in the chain of Samuel Butler's biological works has been missing. "Unconscious Memory" was originally published thirty years ago, but for fully half that period it has been out of print, owing to the destruction of a large number of the unbound sheets in a fire at the premises of the printers some years ago. The present reprint comes, I think, at a peculiarly fortunate moment, since the attention of the general public has of late been drawn to Butler's biological theories in a marked manner by several distinguished men of science, notably by Dr. Francis Darwin, who, in his presidential address to the British Association in 1908, quoted from the translation of Hering's address on "Memory as a Universal Function of Original Matter, " which Butler incorporated into "Unconscious Memory, " and spoke in the highest terms of Butler himself. It is not necessary for me to do more than refer to the changed attitude of scientific authorities with regard to Butler and his theories, since Professor Marcus Hartog has most kindly consented to contribute an introduction to the present edition of "Unconscious Memory, " summarising Butler's views upon biology, and defining his position in the world of science.

Unconscious Memory

Apologie du Démon - Il faut se souvenir que nous n'avons eu connaissance que d'un aspect de l'affaire. C'est Dieu qui a écrit tous les livres. Compensation - Si je meurs prématurément, au moins cela m'épargnera-t-il l'ennui de mon propre succès. Je suis l'enfant terrible de la littérature et de la science et si je ne puis pas, et je sais que je ne le puis pas, obtenir que les gros bonnets du monde littéraire et scientifique me donnent un shilling, je puis, et je sais que je le puis, lancer des pavés au sein de leur groupe. S. Butler.

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Ainsi va toute chair

Crumbles salés et sucrés

Erewhon - anagramme de Nowhere : nulle part - est essentiellement un recueil d'essais humoristiques et satiriques reliés par une fiction romanesque. «C'est donc une Utopie, affirme Larbaud, plus exactement : un voyage dans un pays imaginaire ; et par là - par sa forme - il descend en ligne directe des Voyages de Gulliver, de Swift.».

Erewhon ou de l'autre cote des montagnes

When I was a small boy at the beginning of the century I remember an old man who wore knee-breeches and worsted stockings, and who used to hobble about the street of our village with the help of a stick. He must have been getting on for eighty in the year 1807, earlier than which date I suppose I can hardly remember him, for I was born in 1802. A few white locks hung about his ears, his shoulders were bent and his knees feeble, but he was still hale, and was much respected in our little world of Paleham. His name was Pontifex.

His wife was said to be his master; I have been told she brought him a little money, but it cannot have been much. She was a tall, square-shouldered person (I have heard my father call her a Gothic woman) who had insisted on being married to Mr Pontifex when he was young and too good-natured to say nay to any woman who wooed him. The pair had lived not unhappily together, for Mr Pontifex's temper was easy and he soon learned to bow before his wife?s more stormy moods.

The way of all flesh

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